Tile-kiln



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L. O. FARNAM.

TILE KILN.

No. 309,836. 7 Patented Dec. 30, 1884.

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LINDSEY O. FARNAM, OF NIANTIO, ILLINOIS.

TILE-KILN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 309,836, dated December 30, 1884:.

Application filed June 30, 1884. (No model.) I

To aZZ whom it may concern: that the cold should not to any great extent Be it known that I, LINDSEY O. FARNAM, a affect the result of the operation. resident of the town of Niantic, county of I have shown the dampers provided with Macon, and State of Illinois, have invented levers adapted to be adjusted with relation to 3 5 certain new and useful Improvements in Tilea semicircular rack by means of holes and Kilns, ofwhich the following is a specification. suitable pins; but the only object of such illus- In the drawing accompanying and forming tration is to suggest the fact that the position a part of this specification a tile-kiln embodyof the dampers should be under absolute coning my invention is shown in isometrical pertrol, and slide-dampers may be used with as 40 IO spective. a is the chimney. b b are tile-kilns good or better effect than the form shown.

constructed in the customary manner. ccare To insure the passage of all the escaping underground pipes connecting the kilns with heat of the cooling kiln through pipe d, it is chimney a. d is a pipe that connects the tops necessary that the dampers in the pipe that of kilns I) b. e e are dampers in pipe d. connects the said kiln with the chimney should 5 15 In operation one of the kilns is filled and be closed.

burned in the customary manner, and while it My invention has for its object the utilizais burning the second kiln is filled. During tion of the heat of a cooling kiln for the purthe time the first kiln is burning dampers c e pose of water-smoking the tile in another are kept closed; but as soon as the burning is and separate kiln, and consists in the follow- 5) 20 completed the dampers are thrown open and ing, which the heat of the cooling kiln used to-water- I claim as new and desire to secure by Letsmoke the tile contained in the second kiln. ters Patent By using a greater number of kilns and con- The combination of kilns b b, chimney a, un-

necting them in the manner specified the proderground pipes c c, and connecting-pipe (Z, 5 2 5 cesses of filling, water-smoking, and burning provided with suitable dampers, substantially may constantly followeach other in the order as shown and described. named and all the heat of all the kilns be en- T T T tirely utilized. 7 LILDSEX O. FARLAM.

The pipe (2 may be made of various kinds Attest: 0 of material; but in cold weather at least I B. F. BURT,

would prefer to construct it of brick, in order 0. O. CLARK. 

